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Film Courage: What brought you to Hollywood?
Nick Morton, Writer/Producer: There were two things actually if I think about it.
First, I went to Georgetown, which is not really a Hollywood feeder by any stretch of the imagination.
There was a professor there named John Glavin, who as it turns out was also the professor for John Mulaney and Nick Kroll and Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij, Mike Cahill, but I’m older than all those people.
He taught me freshman English.
Then my senior year he offered a class called Writing for the Screen.
I took the course and we basically studied Syd Field and watched some old movies.
We watched The Palm Beach Story and Vertigo.
We probably watched other things that I can’t remember.
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But then the assignment for our final was we had to choose one of five contemporary movies that were When Harry Met Sally, Dead Again, Jungle Fever, I can’t remember the others.
We were assigned as a group to one of those movies and then had to rewrite it applying what we had learned in the class.
I was assigned Dead Again which I thought was like a perfect movie for the first two-thirds, but I wasn’t crazy about the last third.
I loved working with this group of people exchanging ideas and trying to make the script better.
I had no idea that that is what development was in Hollywood at the time but I was like This is really fun.
It had never occurred to me growing up in a New York…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Nick Morton has produced nearly 30 movies / tv series which include RAY (Jamie Fox, Regina King, Kerry Washington), SAHARA (Mathew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn) and COOPER’S BAR (Rhea Seehorn). Nick is also a standup comedian, author, and host of a podcast on addiction and recovery called The Drunkalogues.
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